Research background: The choice of financial services and remittances are important as they influence the livelihood remittance recipients, who mostly poor financially excluded. In literature, extensive evidence suggests a positive impact size on access to inclusion development remittance-recipient countries. However, concern such studies is that might provide biased outcome available data tend...

This paper investigates the design requirements for international mobile remittances in the context of users’ money management and control in the household and the family. Through scenarios that draw on remittance literature, the paper suggests five design principles for mobile remittances that could be a US$ 41 billion market while empowering women, varying patterns of money management and con...

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The economies of a number of Pacific island countries have become increasingly dependent on the remittance of migrants. A series of recent International Labour Office research projects in the South Pacific focused on two countries—Tonga and Western Samoa (Brown 1994). Recommendations from these insights serve as a basis for a policy dialogue with the financial authorities of Pacific island coun...

In this chapter we provide an overview of the concept of blockchain technology and its potential to disrupt the world of banking through facilitating global money remittance, smart contracts, automated banking ledgers and digital assets. In this regard, we first provide a brief overview of the core aspects of this technology, as well as the second-generation contract-based developments. From th...

Remittances to Latin America from Migrants in the United States: Assessing the Impact of Amnesty Programs The magnitude of remittance flows to Latin America exceeds the combined inflows of foreign direct investment and official development assistance to the region. Since the United States is the destination country of the vast majority of migrants from Mexico, as well as from other Latin Americ...

Migration, Remittances and Children’s Schooling in Haiti In this paper, we focus on the use of remittances to school children remaining in migrant communities in Haiti. After addressing the endogeneity of remittance receipt, we find that remittances raise school attendance for all children in some communities regardless of whether they have household members abroad or not; however, in other com...

This paper examines the role of remittances, provided by a large global diaspora of migrant workers and refugees, in post-war Somaliland. Based on field-work conducted in Somaliland under the COPE project in 1998/9, the paper discusses trends in the size, source, means of transfer, distribution and use of remittances, their role in livelihoods and in the country's economic recovery and future p...